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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1964
Page
2
Attendance at Sunday School was 53. Rev Grigg joined churchgoers for Sunday dinner with the Carters and visited the Perkins family. The column lists visits and gatherings among local families, trips to Decatur Clinton St. Louis Blue Mound and a weekly Ladies Aid meeting with attendees named, plus several weekend visits and a Florida winter return.
The subject is a Kroger store manager turned farmer who served in 1941 and spent 2 1/2 years in Egypt with three Holy Land visits. After discharge in 1945 he farmed three years, trained farmers, then managed Farm Supply in Greenville and Salem before leading F.S. in Shelbyville and Patoka Elevator. He held church, civic roles including Lay Leader, Official Board chair, Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, 4-H, Lions, and American Legion. He and Martha Hart ley Calvert have two sons, David and Date.
We express gratitude to friends and relatives for kind help and sympathy during illness and death of our husband and father. Thanks for the hospital cards and letters. Remembered always are your kindness. Mrs. Wm Linton, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Linton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tacke. Bale-Thrower cuts hay loading time from 35.6 to 9.3 man minutes per ton, per New Holland.
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